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Day 57

It’s……another Dreadnought! In a complete surprise to no-one who’s been following the thread.

Twin Autocannon this time, and definitely working at a faster pace. Pretty much 50% of the metallics on this particular bad boy done.

Wee bit tricky get into the crooks and Nannies, but got them all the same.

Should have him done over tomorrow’s lunch break, and will make inroads to the third tomorrow evening.

You'll enevtually come to a point where keeping this thread up will force you into actually buying more minis

Oh good sir. You underestimate my pile of opportunity.

Hundreds of pounds worth of terrain, a near complete set of HeroQuest and its expansions, with another releasing soon.

Plus two each of the new boxes for Legions Imperialis arriving this weekend.

Not to mention the second Leviathan, 6 Jetbikes and a Land Raider Proteus yet to be built.

Doc you're my hero! Whenever anyone says i have too much I can just point to you and say I'm trying to follow your good example.

Awww shucks.

Key is to just commit to doing at least a little each day. Could be undercoating, could be doing half a model in base colours, a wash or what have you. Bit by bit it comes together.

Though I’ll admit I did go a bit mental with the Tactical Legionnaires, as I had been expecting them to take about a month.

Also done a bit more on the Dread, and revisited the first one to break up the black of its frontage. Painted some spot colours of Gun Metal, and the abdomen bit in Gun Metal too. Much happier with how it now looks - but it does need a wash to bring back the depth.

Definitely makes tackling the pile easier when you are in the mindset of doing at least a little every day.
As you've proved it's amazing how much you can get done this way. I always found it more rewarding and enjoyable doing a little regularly and frequently rather than try to do everything at once.
Dreads are looking good and I'm looking forward to what comes next.

Next is probably my new Legions Imperialis toys. But I may do some Nids as a literal and metaphorical palette cleanser.

To be fair, I'd be inspired to follow your example as I stated already, being away on construction sites doesn't leave me do that!

Daily isn’t gonna be possible for everyone. But the same principle can be applied to whatever free time you have.

Even if it’s just 15 minutes here, hour there? It all adds up.

Day 58

Contemptor No.3. With dual Plasma Cannon.

Different sarcophagus decoration on this one, which was quite good fun to paint.

Time for another break, then back to round off the metallics.

That’s his metallics done.

The paint has misbehaved tonight, going oddly gloopy in places, despite me thinning it. Hopefully once I’ve done the old Nuln Oil it won’t show as much, but still a pain in the bum.

Day 59

Getting the Dreadnoughts some red. Other than of course transfers and basing, that’s the first Talon nearly done.

And redded.

Calling it a night for now.

That’ll do, idiot. That’ll do.

First Talon now battle ready.

Looking at them, decided I really needed the extra detail on the torso. And so I went into the room o’bitz, and dug out my Sprues.

All my Dreadnoughts now have some kind of chest decoration.

See?

Incredible progress here Doc.
you're going to have the entire Dark Angels legion completed by the end of the year at this rate! Inspirational stuff

Ta! Once the Dreadnoughts are done, just the tanks and Jetbikes (not yet assembled) to go.

Contemptors should be all done by the end of the week (three largely down, four to go).

I may then go back to my Legions Imperialis, as I get my new toys this weekend. After that? Deredeo and Leviathans, which I reckon will take a little over a week or so.

And we’re back!

Day 60

Day 60 continued.

All but done. Second coat of red needed, then wash, and finally Celestra Grey on the other half of the shield to finish.




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Oh, and the glow effect on the Volkte.

Day 61

Having a break from the brush and pot, as I’ve got new plastic glue at long last, with a second bottle from Upgrade Gaming Dover* tomorrow.

So I built the first of 6 Jetbikes. Being all sensible and the really well designed (seriously. Goes together like a dream!) the Multimelta isn’t glued in. Totally unsure what my usual loadout will be in the end, but at least it’s a doddle to keep one’s options open.

Day 62

Getting my Epic Build on. First of six Spartans assembled. Really lovely kit, but careful on those Lascannon arrays. I managed to mangle a barrel on the first I tried to clip off the sprue.

Best bit? Engine block is a single, glorious piece.

Half of today’s haul assembled.

The Leviathans have a ridiculous number of bits to them. Three per leg alone.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oh good sir. You underestimate my pile of opportunity.

Hundreds of pounds worth of terrain, a near complete set of HeroQuest and its expansions, with another releasing soon.

Plus two each of the new boxes for Legions Imperialis arriving this weekend.

Not to mention the second Leviathan, 6 Jetbikes and a Land Raider Proteus yet to be built.

that makes my backlog of 78 soviet winter soldiers, 3 weapons teams, 2 artillery teams, 1 Kv-2, 20 cultists, an entire 1000 point ork army that needs to be repainted, Land raider proteus, 14 battlemechs, 1 chaos sorcerer, 1 dark apostle,1 contemptor dreadnought, 1 lord of plagues, 2 hormagaunts, and 30 chaos marines look like a molehill.

All issues caused by being a formerly reluctant painter.

But now I find it relaxing. And provided I do at least a bit a day, the pile reduces. Even bought a new brush today, as my detail brush has pretty much had it.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Awww shucks.

Key is to just commit to doing at least a little each day. Could be undercoating, could be doing half a model in base colours, a wash or what have you. Bit by bit it comes together.

Though I’ll admit I did go a bit mental with the Tactical Legionnaires, as I had been expecting them to take about a month.

Also done a bit more on the Dread, and revisited the first one to break up the black of its frontage. Painted some spot colours of Gun Metal, and the abdomen bit in Gun Metal too. Much happier with how it now looks - but it does need a wash to bring back the depth.

those look really good! do you have any tips for painting contemptor dreadnoughts?


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
All issues caused by being a formerly reluctant painter.

But now I find it relaxing. And provided I do at least a bit a day, the pile reduces. Even bought a new brush today, as my detail brush has pretty much had it.

yeah my new years resolution (aside from actually remembering to do one) is to paint more often. I heavily admire your ability to hobby every day and go thru Dakka's image uploading system as much as you do in the thread. Good stuff.

For painting Contemptors, not really. I found they took Army Painter Speed Paint nicely, which saved a lot of time.

I went back to the first three I did to add some detail bits, like the pectoral shield dooberries. Painted red and white, they really broke up a boring, solid black frontage nicely. But you can achieve the same thing with brighter paintjobs depending on Legion, and Transfers.

Other than that, the sculpts have little “cut outs” on the armour, which I painted metallic, again to break up the monotony.


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Also, having my cabinets is a genuine inspiration to get stuff done. Unpainted grey stashed in a box is not the same motivator as unpainted grey in a proper display.

I’ve currently got 50% of the shelves in my first cabinet filled with painted models, and the Dread shelf is well underway.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
For painting Contemptors, not really. I found they took Army Painter Speed Paint nicely, which saved a lot of time.

I went back to the first three I did to add some detail bits, like the pectoral shield dooberries. Painted red and white, they really broke up a boring, solid black frontage nicely. But you can achieve the same thing with brighter paintjobs depending on Legion, and Transfers.

Other than that, the sculpts have little “cut outs” on the armour, which I painted metallic, again to break up the monotony.


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Also, having my cabinets is a genuine inspiration to get stuff done. Unpainted grey stashed in a box is not the same motivator as unpainted grey in a proper display.

I’ve currently got 50% of the shelves in my first cabinet filled with painted models, and the Dread shelf is well underway.

thank you for the tips
by the way, I see that you have given one of the Dreads a power fist with the curved blade fingers. How did you glue them in? I have an unbuilt contemptor and can't tell the parts apart as they have been cut out and they dont seem to fit in the fist. Would you have any words of wisdom and/or personal experience to share in how you built the kit?

I built them over a year ago, but I’ll give it a go!

I don’t recall them being slot specific. And I couldn’t tell you if they’re interchangeable over the two fists the full kit comes with (as opposed to the one in the AoD boxed set).

Only thing I can recommend is assemble most of the fist, and let it dry. Then a bit trial and error to see if any finger fits better.


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But…if you have the instructions? I should have enough Sprues that I might be able to help you identify which finger is which?

Right, here’s what I’ve got.

Part 15 is the straightest finger. Part 17 is the most bent. Part 16 is the in-between.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Right, here’s what I’ve got.

Part 15 is the straightest finger. Part 17 is the most bent. Part 16 is the in-between.

Thank you. I needed to use them because my IW helbrute needed to look more enlightened. Unlike your un-chainy, un-spikey, un-cool, black templar ripoff corpse worshippers.

JK, still they are great models and thank you for the help!